Rakesh Ramamoorthy is Assistant Professor in the department of English at Mar Ivanios College, India. His research focuses on South Asian cricketing cultures and his monograph explores the postcoloniality of contemporary cricketing narratives from India and Pakistan. His essays have appeared in The Explicator, Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Humanities, The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies (2015) and The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism (2015).